The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-14
Summer Resort Echoes.


New York Mail and Express.
The head waiter at nearly every summer ho-
tel conspires with his men to compel boarders to
fee them, the methods adopted being contempt
ible.
Young gentleman at one of the resorts who
excites interest is the son OF many-times mill
ionaire, whom many young women now seek to
entrap.
A sight of SURPRISING beauty and one long to
be rememb ered is sunrise from the plateau on
which stands the half-century old Catskill Mount
ain House.
throughout the Berkshire district there are as
many summer visitors as usual nearly all OF a
kind who do not make any effort to assert social
superiority.
Travel to Catskill still holds good, but there
very crowded hotels yet The multiplied
ty of boarding houses undoubtedly limits the
hotel business
According to the correspondents there are
several women at every fashionable resort who
the "beles or the season" 1t is a very cheap
distinction at best.
Newport becomes animated and lively with
the return from Europe of several summer resi-
dents of whom much in the line of festivity is
annually expected.
Without their snowy raiment and huge
diamonds, the throng of women seen at Saratoga
hotels would never be heard of, and very few of
them are socially known.
1t is remarked that the cup-boys at Saratoga
show greatest attention to the water imbibers
who are habitual clippers" At least this is the
complaint of the -gratuitv givers
Sneak thieves have been operating again at
some of the seaside hotels but the details of
their success have been kept out Of the local pa
perS and from the correspondents as WELL
A good many of the snowy turnouts seen on
Ocean avenue. Long Branch hired by the
day, week month, and a close inspection en-
ables anybody to detect the livery ear-mark.
It is not very good summer for the itineraut
performers at the hotels. Their audiences are
small and suddenly become very much smaller
when the soliciting hat" is put in circulation.
Niagara is we'll described as ''surpassing in it's
spring effect all the sights of earth known
to man" If Niagara were in Europe there
would not be hotels enough for annual visitors
Women who make exhibitions of themselves
the beach in not over modest bathing dress
are of the kind who will lower the standard Of
general respectability at the slightest provoca-
ton.
He is the odd correspondent at summer resorts
who does not make some fattering reference to
the hotel clerk. of which kind of puffery news
paper readers free to confess themselves
weary.
The sea threatens to disarrange things very
soon around and about some of the Coney island
hotels, and this may be why the owners do
think it wise to make certain improvements sug-
gested
Gen. Sherman was telegraphsd as at two diff
ferent summer resorts the same day, they being
hundreds of miles apart 1t is to be feared the
bonifaces are utilizing the old nero as an adver-
tisement.
Fairs for various charities and churches are
now In order at many Of the resorts where the
money of the hotel boarders is annually counted
upon to help along every good cause brought to
their notice.
There is now quite round of dinner parties
and thigh teas" at Newport, but festivity
old-time scale of mag nitude. In a social
fashionable point Of view Newport has not been
itself this year.
There ia very little news from Old Orchard
beach, which has for a great many years
been numbered among the popular New England
seaside resorts, but would this season appear to
be SUCCESSFULLY quiet
Recent visitors to West Brighton beach are
inclined to smile over the mi-ofical announce
ment that the moral publication of that locality
has been effected. A leopard cannot change his
spots, neither can w. b. b.
Most of the Western and Southwestern resorts
doing fairly well, few being absolutely
crowded. If there were fewer OF them. it is moro
than likely their success would be even greater
than it is, but they almost multiply from year to
year.
Not little OF the illness at watering place hotels
is due to imprudence and ignorance in eating
People who accustomed to corned beef and
cabbage at home very happy when sampling
every dish enumerated on the hotel bill of fare,
but their JOY turns to sorrow when gormandiz-
ing begets illness, and the expense OK calling
physician is incurred.
Mother" said Miss Culture, OF Boston, as
they sat together the summer hotel piazza,
81 scarcely regard those New Workers, Mrs
Mayfair and daughters, as desirable acquaint-
ances." mo. dear; why not?" Because | was
in the office when the mail was distributed and
there was no Atlantic Monthly for any of them
and the only letter they received was in a COM
mon yellow envelope